Product Description
Hard To Find Actual 1977 Japanese First Pressing ~ Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics. Regarded As The Best Album By Billy Joel, ‘The Stranger’ Features “Movin’ Out”, “The Stranger”, “Just The Way You Are”, “Vienna”, “She’s Always A Woman” & More!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
The Stranger
Just The Way You Are
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Side 2:
Vienna
Only The Good Die Young
She’s Always A Woman
Get It Right The First Time
AMG –
Joel rarely wrote a set of songs better than those on The Stranger, nor did he deliver an album as consistently listenable. 4 ½ Stars None of Billy Joel's ballads have been as sweet or slick as "Just the Way You Are"; he never had created a rocker as bouncy or infectious as "Only the Good Die Young". Joel rarely wrote a set of songs better than those on The Stranger, nor did he deliver an album as consistently listenable. 4 ½ Stars